Programming in BASIC on the Color Computer - Chapter 26 - Managing Numbers

Chapter 26 on programming in BASIC on the Color Computer is called Managing Numbers, and it introduces us to array variables.

An array variable allows you to create subsets of data within a particular variable name.

If you need to store 10 numbers into variables, for example, instead of assigning 10 different variable names to each number, you can DIM and ARRAY of 10 and store 10 different numbers as SUBSETS of that array.

For example, to store 10 numbers into an array A, you would start by

DIM A(10)

to allocate 10 subset locations for variable A You can then READ in that data, or inject the values into each subset variable any way you see fit, including FOR... NEXT loops, READ, etc.

One area where this was helpful for me in the past was dealing with managing, sorting, and storing high score tables for video games.

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